Jagat Narayan, J.—This is a revision application by the Income Tax Officer, Jodhpur, against an order dated 26th March, 1957, passed by the Additional Civil Judge, Jodhpur, in a suit for the recovery of money pending before him. 2. The suit has been instituted by an advocate for recovering his fees for appearing before the Income Tax Officer on behalf of certain assessees. In order to prove that he was engaged by them and actually appeared for them before the Income Tax Officer the plaintiff applied to the court for summoning the Income Tax Officer, Jodhpur, for producing the following documents : — (1) Vakalatnama filed by the plaintiff on behalf of his clients before the Income Tax Officer, Jodhpur. (2) Order-sheet of proceedings before the Income Tax Officer showing the appearance of the plaintiff on behalf of his clients on different dates, and (3) An application filed by the plaintiff before the I.T.O. on behalf of his clients. 3 Summonses were duly issued by the court. The Income Tax Officer however raised an objection that the documents which he was asked to produce were confidential under sec. 54 of the Income Tax Act and the Court had no power to order their production. On this objection, the court passed an order on 26th Match, 1957, holding that the Vakalatnama was nor protected under sec. 54 of the Income Tax Act. He also held that the Income Tax Officer was bound to disclose on what dates the plaintiff had appeared before him on behalf of his clients and whether he had filed any application on behalf of his clients before him. Against that order the present revision application has been filed. 4. The contention on behalf of the applicant is that the Vakalatnama is a document produced under the provisions of sec. 61 of the Income Tax Act and the order-sheet and application are parts of the record of the assessment proceedings and as such they are covered by the ban imposed under sec. 54 of the Income Tax Act. 5. On behalf of the opposite party, it is contended that there is nothing confidential in the Vakalatnama or in the information which he seeks from the Income Tax Officer and the order of the learned Addition Civil Judge is proper. The decision of Bhagwati, J. in Official Assignee of Bombay vs. Mustafa Murtaza (1) was relied upon. 6. 5. On behalf of the opposite party, it is contended that there is nothing confidential in the Vakalatnama or in the information which he seeks from the Income Tax Officer and the order of the learned Addition Civil Judge is proper. The decision of Bhagwati, J. in Official Assignee of Bombay vs. Mustafa Murtaza (1) was relied upon. 6. Sec. 54(1) of the Income Tax Act runs as follows : "All particulars contained in any statement made, return furnished or accounts or documents produced under the provisions of this Act, or in any evidence given, or affidavit or deposition made, in the course of any proceedings under this Act other than proceedings under this Chapter, or in any record of any assessment proceeding, or any proceeding relating to the recovery of a demand, prepared for the purposes of this Act, shall be treated as confidential, and, notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (I of 1872) no Court shall, save as provided in this Act, be entitled to require any public servant to produce before it any such return, accounts, documents or record or any part of any such record or to give evidence before it in respect thereof. 7. The language used in the section is very general. In Official Assignee of Bombay vs. Mustafa Murtaza(l) certain books of account were filed before the Income Tax Officer in a certain proceeding. He was called upon to produce them in court. It was contended that in view off the provisions of sec. 54 of the Income Tax Act, the Income Tax Officer could not be called upon to produce the account books. It was held that only those entries in the books of account which were relevant for purposes of asses-ment could come under the ban imposed under sec. 54 of the Act and not the entire account books. The object of the enactment of sec. 54 Income Tax Act is to save confidential communications which the assessees may take to the Income Tax Officer in the course of the investigation. It does not appear to have been the intention of the Legislature to save all documents produced before the Income Tax Officer under the provisions of the Income Tax Act irrespective of their nature. 54 Income Tax Act is to save confidential communications which the assessees may take to the Income Tax Officer in the course of the investigation. It does not appear to have been the intention of the Legislature to save all documents produced before the Income Tax Officer under the provisions of the Income Tax Act irrespective of their nature. The ratio decidendi in the above Bombay case was that only those documents which were relevant for purposes of assess-ment came under the ban imposed under sec. 54 of the Income Tax Act. The same ratio is applicable in the present case. The Vakalatnama which was produced by the plaintiff before the Income Tax Officer under sec. 61 of the Income Tax Act authorising him to represent his clients in proceedings before the Income Tax Officer as well as the other information, which the learned Additional Civil Judge has held that the Income Tax Officer is bound to furnish, are not relevant for purposes of assessments. They are consequently not covered by the ban imposed under sec. 54. 8. I accordingly hold that the order passed by the learned Additional Civil Judge is proper and dismiss the revision application. 9. I would like to make it clear that the contents of the application filed by the plaintiff on behalf of the assessees cannot be disclosed. All that the learned Additional Civil Judge has held is that the income Tax Officer is bound to disclose whether the plaintiff had filed any application on behalf of the assessees. 10. In the circumstances of the case I direct that parties shall bear their own costs.